Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Ho hum. The BBC have delivered a new web site and it sits in the middle instead of ranged left.
I think this looks really good. It really is just plain simple and the layout is not too busy. The best feature has to be the customisation. It is possible to change the colour scheme and choose alternative categories for the site.
One important change; this is set up as fixed width - fitting into a 1024 pixel wide display. Most sites I work on are still kind to users with 800 pixel widths.
You can find the BBC web site here.
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Posted on 09 Apr 2008 around 6pm •
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Monday, February 04, 2008
I have set up a few forums and blogs with commenting and I have had some thoughts and issues about what should be private and what should be public. This can often lead to confusion. Why should things need to be kept private and how do you manage different levels of privilege?
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Posted on 04 Feb 2008 around 11am •
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
Internet links to the middle east and beyond are broken because of 2 broken undersea cables.
We don't tend to think about it that often but our connections around the world are actually reliant on cables laid on the ocean floor. It turns out that 2 cables running side by side have been severed by a ship's anchor off the coast Egypt.
There are conflicting reports about the cause but what seems strange to me is that the cables are near enough to one another to have sustained the same damage.
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Posted on 03 Feb 2008 around 9pm •
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
I am now using Coda.
Used up the tryout period and have now committed some money for real!
What a tremendous tool this is but wait.... I still have some niggles. I love it but how can I deal with all the other lovely tools that now clutter my applications folder. What shall I do with BBedit? And what of TextMate? My students need to use Dreamweaver (unfortunately), so I still need to know all about that too.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I heard more about this on David Pogue's Podcast.
David Pogue, who now says that he will stop his podcast for a while elaborated on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).
Earlier on Pogue reviewed the laptop and you can see this on YouTube. Take look ...
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